Sunday, September 20, 2009

Good night, sweet Giants. The Dodgers greeting a tired Tim Lincecum today almost as rudely as they did Brad Penny yesterday, combined with another Rockies win, has effectively killed San Francisco's playoff chances. Today's offensive heroes are all-of-a-sudden-but-not-really MVP candidate Andre Ethier (with a two-run homer, his 31st, in the third inning) and Marlon Anderson Ronnie Belliard (with a two-run single in the fourth).

Randy Wolf gets his 11th win with six innings of two-run ball, the Kevorkian committee (Hong-Chih Kuo in the seventh, George Sherrill in the eighth and Jonathan Broxton in the ninth) puts the Giants down and keeps them there. Dodgers get their 90th win and are a season-high 30 games over .500. Oh, and the Nationals and Pirates await during the week. Here's to the opposite of sucking!

Now we can start thinking about the post-season. I like our chances vs. Phila. Heavy left hand presence in the Phills line-up, and the Dodgers counter with Kershaw, Wolf, and out of the pen, FLAT BRIM REAPER.

We'll still have to go through St. Looie, but if we hold the best record, there's a chance. Plus, the Redbird offense has gone beddy-bye lately. 2-1 vs the Cubs? Not good.

Loved Manny leaving thru the bullpen when HCK was warming up. Finally came back out. I speculated he needed to drop off a load. I halfway expected Belly, Tranc, Flat Brim Reaper, etc. to come running out onto the field only to have Manny tell them "That wing is closed."

^ POst-game fellas had a funny take on that news. They said usually - especially with young players - they have good behavior clauses in contracts and the management usually sits down with a young player to tell them that you can't, you know, kill other people.

Our boys should clinch against the Pirates just shy of heading to chavez ravine II aka San Diego. Playoff baseball here we come and on top of that we get to virtually knock out the Giants! Life is good.